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With a tendency to drift, the Scottish songwriter’s first solo record in almost a decade is a quiet, graceful collection of autumnal folk music. 

Dot Allison has led a peripatetic musical life over the last four decades, working with everyone from Nicola Roberts, of pop sensationalists Girls Aloud, to My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields. This adaptability and willingness to experiment is the mark of a fascinatingly wayward artist whose next turn is rarely what you’d expect. But her classic remains 1993’s Morning Dove White, the lone record by her trio One Dove, a collection of glowing chill-out soul made in collaboration with the late Andrew Weatherall.

Allison mentions Weatherall, who died in 2020, as being “the biggest influence, in a mentor type way” on Heart-Shaped Scars, her first solo record in almost a decade. And if this music sounds a world away from the electronic pop of Morning Dove White, eschewing drum machines and dub bass lines in favor of acoustic guitars and the gentle sounds of nature—a sonic mixture similar to Allison’s 2007 album Exaltation of Larks— it does share Weatherall’s modus operandi of working with sympathetic collaborators to bring out the best in yourself, as well as the DJ’s occasional tendency to ramble. Allison made the album with Fiona Cruickshank, a producer who has worked as “string engineer” for Coldplay and Paul Weller, and Hannah Peel, a composer whose album Fir Wave was nominated for the Mercury Prize. Singer-songwriters Amy Bowman and Zoë Bestel also contributed, while nature itself lent a helping hand on the field recordings of birds and rivers that decorate Heart-Shaped Scars like arcadian gems.

Tracks:
1. Long Exposure (5:50)
2. The Haunted (6:20) met Amy Bowman
3. Constellations (4:32)
4. Can You Hear Nature Sing? (4:18) met Zoë Bestel
5. Ghost Orchid (4:30)
6. Entanglement (0:42)
7. Forever's Not Much Time (4:06)
8. Cue the Tears (4:02)
9. One Love (5:48)
10. Love Died in Our Arms (4:46)
11. Goodbye (5:23)

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